Cintel
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Cintel International is a company specializing in products for the film post production industry. It was formerly part of the Rank Organisation. Headquarters in Ware, Hertfordshire, UK.
Their main products are:
- diTTo & dataMill film scanners.
- Millennium II & DSX telecines.
- imageMill image processing system, with grain reduction and stabilisation options.
[edit] History
- 1950 The first flying spot telecine is installed at the BBC.
- TMk1 Polygonal Prism system
- Mk II Twin Lens
- Mk III Jump scan
- MK IIIB Progressive scan and Digiscan
- Mk IIIC Next generation Digiscan
- Ursa (1989) 4:2:2 D1 color space output
- Ursa Gold (1993) 4:4:4 output
- Ursa Diamond (1997), with many third-party improvements added
- C-Reality HD and Data
- DSX telecine HD and Data
- In 2002 Cintel acquired Innovation TK including the Millennium HD and Data Telecine.